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Like many properties, this is a notion of smallness. It's not about the smallness of a subset $U$ of $X$, but smallness of a collection ${\mathcal C}$ of subsets $U$ of $X$. | Like many properties, this is a notion of smallness. It's not about the smallness of a subset $U$ of $X$, but smallness of a collection ${\mathcal C}$ of subsets $U$ of $X$. | ||
- | You may consider a well choosen sample of neighborhoods (the sets $V\in{\mathcal T}$) and ${\mathcal C}$ ought to be finite with respect to that sample (countable //pro// $V$). | + | You may consider a well choosen sample of neighborhoods (the sets $V\in{\mathcal T}$) and ${\mathcal C}$ ought to be finite with respect to that sample (finite //pro// $V$). |
=== Dicussion === | === Dicussion === | ||
- | A topologal space is paracompact if it has a cover with that property. | + | * A topologal space is //paracompact// if it any cover has a refinement with that property. |
+ | * The sample of $V$'s above may be very big, so ${\mathcal C}$ is really only small w.r.t. the sample. In a //compact// space, on the other hand, the cover itself is finite (and you don't need to consider that sample). | ||
+ | * Note that the name //locally compact// is already used for the situation where every point $x\in X$ has a compact neighborhood $V$. | ||
=== Reference === | === Reference === |